Description

Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology is a 244-page collection of short fiction by established Vermont-based writers, each rendering their own unique and diverse perspectives on the cultural and physical landscape of the Green Mountain State.

Though we believe such a book will be particularly relevant to Vermont residents and tourists, Green Writers Press has national distribution and we hope the anthology will have broad reach and impact. We consider this collection not just an ode to a specific place, but a book about how places shape and are shaped by the people who inhabit them, how writers interpret places differently, and about the power of fiction itself: how stories are a means of engendering empathy, illuminating interconnection, prompting new ways of imagining and living, and by doing all of these, help birth cultures of conservation.

Wallace Stegner wrote, No place is a place until things that have happened in it are rememberedfictions serve as well as facts. We at Green Writers Press agree and believe such literary renderings are key components to the conservation, understanding, appreciation and preservation of places.

Praise For Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology…

“…Critically important in the struggle to keep good and important literature and ideas alive and well.”

—Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom

“Contemporary Vermont Fiction, the anthology as a whole, highlights the integrity, humor, and toughness that manage to germinate and bear seed in this place of hard, early frosts. Again and again, sensitivity to the land’s dramatic resilience lifts up people and communities at moments of crisis. A heightened sense of honesty and affiliation, for the writers, the characters in their stories, and their readers alike, are the upshot.”